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Judah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה , Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā) [1] was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah and the founder of the Tribe of Judah of the Israelites. By extension, he is indirectly the eponym of the Kingdom of Judah, the land of Judea, and the word Jew.
Mosaic depicting the twelve tribes and their Hebrew names, with symbolic images. *Asher: a tree *Dan: Scales of justice *Judah: Kinnor, cithara and crown, symbolising King David *Reuben: Mandrake (Genesis 30:14) *Joseph: Palm tree and sheaves of wheat, symbolizing his time in Egypt *Naphtali: gazelle (Genesis 49:21)
Solomon's death led to the rejection of the House of David by most of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, with only Judah and Benjamin remaining loyal: the dissenters chose Jeroboam as their monarch and formed the Kingdom of Israel in the north ; while the loyalists kept Solomon's son Rehoboam as their monarch and formed the Kingdom of Judah in the ...
Jewish genealogy is the study of Jewish families and the tracing of their lineages and history. The Pentateuchal equivalent for "genealogies" is "toledot" (generations). In later Hebrew, as in Aramaic, the term and its derivatives "yiḥus" and "yuḥasin" recur with the implication of legitimacy or nobility of birth. [1]
They were the sons of Elimelech of the tribe of Judah and his wife Naomi. Together with their parents, they settled in the land of Moab during the period of the Israelite Judges . On foreign soil, Mahlon married the Moabite convert [ 1 ] Ruth (Ruth 4:10) while Chilion married the Moabite convert Orpah .
Netflix recently dropped the historical drama, 'The Empress,' and fans have a lot of questions about who the royals were IRL. All about the House of Habsburg.
The Kingdom of Judah was located in the Judean Mountains, stretching from Jerusalem to Hebron and into the Negev Desert.The central ridge, ranging from forested and shrubland-covered mountains gently sloping towards the hills of the Shephelah in the west, to the dry and arid landscapes of the Judaean Desert descending into the Jordan Valley to the east, formed the kingdom's core.
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